Delay between screenshots being taken?

[InfestedAdam]

I screenshot MSQ conversations since, as far as I know, not all can be viewed again in the inn. Sometime stuff happens fast enough in the cutscenes that I find myself spamming the F12 key. Sometimes despite the audio indicator chiming late the screenshot was still taken. Other times I would notice a screenshot wasn't taken when I'm spamming F12.

To those who also take frequent screenshots, have you notice delays using the Steam built-in screenshot feature? Have you had better luck using the in-game screenshot feature?


Comments and opinions are appreciated,

Thank you

[Mandodo]

It's lack luster.

only reason i use it is because you can link them in here, the forums and have the actual image up, not an off site image made with Imagur or photobucket, etc.

I use mainly the in game one, PrtSc button, print screen button. With Scroll Lock for hiding the UI.

Just spam the in game one, it goes so fast if you mash fast enough and click through your photos it's like a slide show, an active slide show. it's pretty cool really.

but, yes, steam has a 5 second delay between screenshots so if your looking to get a ton in a few seconds, just use the in game one, print screen button.

[Mandodo]

Steam allows you to link your screenshots in here but not ones takin using in game.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1779549874

[Elenoe]

Let me address the cause instead of consequences:

1) do you know you can set the speed of dialogs and/or have it so it waits until you click to move forward? ( press [Space] for switching between auto/delay and showing hints on how to control cutscene pace )

2) if you constantly have the problem you didn't catch something, use background recording instead. Both - built-in Windows 10 gaming panel and your GPU software - have the ability to keep recording last [30s, 1min, 5min...] in infinite loop and save it retrospectively on keypress.

[InfestedAdam]

Originally posted by rocketskates69:

Just spam the in game one, it goes so fast if you mash fast enough and click through your photos it's like a slide show, an active slide show. it's pretty cool really.

but, yes, steam has a 5 second delay between screenshots so if your looking to get a ton in a few seconds, just use the in game one, print screen button.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a try. From my experience the delay isn't as long as five seconds but it is inconsistent. For example I'll take four screenshots about one second after another and it would be the third screenshot that wouldn't capture.

Originally posted by Elenoe:

1) do you know you can set the speed of dialogs and/or have it so it waits until you click to move forward? ( press [Space] for switching between auto/delay and showing hints on how to control cutscene pace )

If you're referring to just dialogues, aye I have it set to pause until I manually forward it. My issue is taking screenshots in between the dialogues.

Originally posted by Elenoe:

2) if you constantly have the problem you didn't catch something, use background recording instead. Both - built-in Windows 10 gaming panel and your GPU software - have the ability to keep recording last [30s, 1min, 5min...] in infinite loop and save it retrospectively on keypress.

I thought about recording but fear it will eat up hard drive space rather quick. Realistically I might never look at these screenshots again so I don't know why I take em but a whole expansion worth of MSQ conversations usually ends up being just 1-2 GB which is tolerable for me.

EDIT: On another note I transferred all the images from the screenshot folder to another hard drive and deleted all the thumbnail photos. Not sure if it's related but haven't had issues with a delay yet.